final fantasy xi expansion being excluded from playstion2 users

[Sarick]

Not false Microsoft is dropping XP support. Just not til next april. As a Company you would want to wean your customers off of the relatively soon to be non supported OS. So you can concentrate on the ones that will still continue to receive support.

If you put it that way Microsoft IS dropping Windows 8 support! This isn't fiction because it's true. The only difference with my logic is the real world (WHEN) timeline that you also failed to acknowledge when you made this post.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ucts/lifecycle

Windows 8 isn't listed yet and windows 7 is to be determined. This doesn't mean it's not planned because they're already working on windows 9!

[Kojo]

sumthing i have always wonderd could they not just port the xbox copy to the ps3 like any other game?

Not sure if that has been said, but look at Bethesda and Skyrim, they've proven copy and pasting from Xbox 360 to PS3 isn't easy.

[Ritsuka]

I agree with him you shouldn't phase out a system with out replace it with something else. This made the ps2's hard drive useful now sense its getting cut back its worthless 100$ down the drain and it still works fine. The ps2 wasnt holding the game back the fact that the game is old is why the graphics are not up the pair with others it come out in 2000 hello? The ps3's games can run on the ps vita and the vita isn't as strong as the ps3. The fact Square was stating the ps2 had issue's was because "SONY" placed a 10 gig partition limit to square soft when the game was made. That they just finally let them increase just last year. Just upgrade the game to ps3 its gonna be cheap soon now price drop to 100 bucks well be very soon.

[Trumpy]

does it matter when they are droppin support for xp. the first time it was mentioned he didnt even mention a date, i feel like u are argueing for the same thing lol. but what im curious bout is microsoft is droppin support for vista? i hadnt heard that yet.

[Alhanelem]

some ppl dont seem to understand, "dropping support" doesn't mean "suddenly wont work anymore." it simply means they won't help you if something goes wrong.

[TybudX]

PC's aren't as easy to setup for just anyone. FFXI being as old as it is needs a few touches to get it working right..

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Graphics

On behalf of those of us that are not in preschool I would like to apologize for the way SE has mistreated you. Or maybe you are a sheep dog? Or some other animal that does not use their frontal lobe. Maybe you have just never seen a computer before, and truly are mystified by the wonderful advances we have made in science and technology in the last 45 years. Good luck! I hope reading the wiki page does not interfere with the functioning of your breathing tube.

[Ravenmore]

some ppl dont seem to understand, "dropping support" doesn't mean "suddenly wont work anymore." it simply means they won't help you if something goes wrong.

They didn't help much to start with, so old man is just getting bent because he has a bunch of ps2 that omg have no use anymore. Christ on a cracker its a outdated system and why make disc that the largest retail outlets won't carry. Only reason xbox 360 got disc is retailer are still stocking the 360 and the games it plays.

Also really how hard is it to find and update a video driver, if you can't do that or least know someone that can( like a niece or nephew or the 13 year old kid next door) what cave have you been living in. That is the most you would have to do to get ffxi to run on just about any laptop or pc.

[Kojo]

As a person who started and played on PS2 for 7 years, then swapped to laptop. I can see where the PS2 is holding the game back. I'd rather them drop PS2 entirely, though it does irk me that JP can get SoA on PS2 while NA/EU can't.

I'd also like to add that one or two people complaining about no PS2 SoA isn't going to change their minds. No one makes/sales brand new Sega Genesis games, don't expect them to make/sale PS2 software, it's obsolete. Lastly, excluding PS2 was a business decision, most likely; you can't get a $30 disc so you go buy a $40 disc to play on PC. IMO, the fact that JP still get PS2 is a bad business decision, but this is an American looking at the way JP play. I may not fully understand how things go on the JP side.

[Teraniku]

If you put it that way Microsoft IS dropping Windows 8 support! This isn't fiction because it's true. The only difference with my logic is the real world (WHEN) timeline that you also failed to acknowledge when you made this post.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...ucts/lifecycle

Windows 8 isn't listed yet and windows 7 is to be determined. This doesn't mean it's not planned because they're already working on windows 9!

Obviously, because it's the nature of the beast.

[cloverlief]

Not false Microsoft is dropping XP support. Just not til next april. As a Company you would want to wean your customers off of the relatively soon to be non supported OS. So you can concentrate on the ones that will still continue to receive support.

Actually if you go the Microsoft support site you will see that support for XP RTM dropped earlier this month.
However if you have a service pack you are still covered for a bit.

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/s...he-corner.aspx

Since XP support has stopped for all versions, many game groups are dropping support. That does not mean the game does not work. That just means if you call for support because you are having an issue related to your OS and the game they can't do anything to help you. That also means separate testing of updates will not be tested on XP but most likely will still work.

This does open the door for the item brought up in the last vanafest with regards to a possible graphics update (which may require a directX update.

I hope this helps. Sometimes in this world it is time to upgrade hardware. Not enough US people still have PS2s that play this game, the PS3 did not do that well, and while it is doing a little better now, the PS4 is almost out and it is not looking promising with it's future either. It is too early to say, if the PS3 or the PS4 take off like the PS2 did then maybe this would change. The PS2 limitation with storage space and issues that can't easily be fixed has been plagueing the game for so many years it is really time to put it to pasture and move on. You can still get your PS2 style experience with a budget PC (Windows 7 or 8) and either an adaptor for the PS2 controller or a logitech that is similar. Who knows it may be like a whole new world with the graphics upgrade you will see over the PS2.